Oh Heath
January 22nd 2008 23:28
I walked out of Brokeback Mountain looking like I had just had my own heart broken. I carried on crying for an hour after the movie was over. It was one of the most moving love stories of never quite getting there and living without the one person that brought you to the most passionate part of yourself. Heath Ledger was so goddamned sexy in it and I loved him for it.
The narcissism of the audience is that sometimes we feel an actor is speaking just to us, and us alone. I have that with John Goodman, Jeff Bridges and a couple of other favourite actors. I have that with Robbie Williams, my worst of the bad boys. I had that with Heath.
I thought he was gorgeous. I thought he had it all.
But a tragedy like this reminds us, just as Owen Wilson's recent attempted suicide, that the lives of celebrities, much as some of us are obsessed with them, can be lonely and desperate places of excess, where believing you are above the laws of the land, is only outmuscled by the belief that you are immune to the laws of Nature.
I often wonder what happens to the bold and the beautiful, the rich and the famous behind closed doors, when the paparazzi aren’t there to give you a reason to exist, or lash out. Like Nicole Anna Smith, and so many people living too-fast lives, where ‘no’ is not part of your world, Heath Ledger burned out too fast. Too young. Leaving a little girl without her father. Shit, that sucks.
He was a superb actor. Such a beautiful hunk of a man.
But what a price to pay for the fool’s gold of fame.
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Rest in peace, Heath.
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RIP Heath. I can't believe this has become of an Aussie who broke into Hollywood to live his dreams.
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But now, just like that, he's gone. Australia loses a great actor and Hollywood hero, and a little girl loses her dad.
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Comment by Mrs M
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I'm very sad, Mr M is too.
He certainly hadn't peaked yet. So so sad.
It was very difficult the hear that he had died. It was like my ears or my brain was refusing to compute what I had just been told.
Love & stuff and a little bit of sadness today
Mrs M